Many of us use the weather as an ice breaker to start a discussion

One of the favorite parts of my job is getting to visit farms all over the country

With the end of summer just around the corner, it’s time to plan which pastures or fields you will target to stockpile for winter grazing

Warm-season annual forages are fast-growing, high-quality species that can supplement production and quality to support animal performance

"Should I shred my pastures?” This is a question asked by many beef cattle and forage producers

This past fall, I had the opportunity to visit several different regions across the U.S. and drove many miles of two-lane roads around the countryside

In my role as an extension specialist, my team and I conduct many research trials related to grazing management and conserved forage production

After attending the highly anticipated parades and firework displays, it may feel like the dog days of summer are on a downward trend toward the fall

Resilience is a word that is often bandied around, but what exactly does it mean in relation to agriculture and forages? The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as the “capacity to withstand or

It’s this time of year when grasses show us and tell us what they’re made of. They tell us what they like and what they don’t like. It seems some people never learn the language of grasses

Forty years is a long time to be doing one thing, but it would seem a lot longer if that thing was not truly relevant

I was fresh of out college in the late 1970s and found myself working on a large dairy and grain crop operation in southern Illinois

This year provided us one of the strangest planting seasons in recent memory. With a reported 19 million acres of prevent plant and an estimated 4 million acres of alfalfa damaged by winter weather

The most widely planted tall fescue variety today is Kentucky 31 (KY-31), which was released in 1943 by E.N. Fergus

In the Midwest, planting winter-hardy cereal grasses such as winter rye or triticale after fall-harvested corn or soybeans can provide both soil benefits and a grazing resource in the spring

University of WisconsinPerhaps no forage species is as perplexing and invokes such a wide range of emotions or adjectives as reed canarygrass. I learned this lesson early in my former extension s

Let’s make this easy — use RFQ, not RFV. You can stop here, or continue to read on. The relative forage quality (RFQ) metric for indexing forage nutritive value has now been around for over